2015 Spring Newspaper Festival to open in Hanoi

The 2015 Spring Newspaper Festival will feature spring publications from 65 press agencies. (Credit: hanoimoi)

NDO – The 2015 Spring Newspaper Festival, an annual important cultural and media event for the country, will be held at the Vietnam Exhibition and Fair Centre in Hanoi from February 7 to 10.

This year’s festival will feature 120 booths displaying spring publications from 65 central and local press agencies across the country.

The publications, including magazines, printed and pictorial editions, audio and television products and online newspapers, will introduce achievements that the entire Party, people and army made last year as well as plans and goals for the nation’s development.

On the occasion, the Communist Magazine will organise numerous seminars and talks on the press, along with exchanges between press agencies and readers.

During the festival, a wide variety of cultural, arts and sports activities will also be held to serve the capital’s citizens.

When the festival closes, the organising board will present prizes to newspapers and magazines.

So far, Vietnam has had 845 print newspaper agencies with 1,118 publications, a national news agency and 67 central and local radio and television stations, along with nearly 18,000 journalists granted press cards and around 5,000 other reporters.

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